These resources may foster change inside and outside the school setting. They often require school-community partnerships, addressing a broad range of risk and protective factors associated with absence/attendance so as to disrupt risk pathways for youth. If you are looking for resources in a language other than English, please check the ‘My Country’ menu.
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Journal articles
- Sheldon, S.B. (2007). Improving student attendance with school, family, and community partnerships. Journal of Educational Research, 100, 267-275.
- Kearney, C.A., & Hugelshofer, D. (2000). Systemic and clinical strategies for preventing school refusal behavior in youth. Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy, 14, 51-65.
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Books and Book Chapters
- Gottfried, M.A., & Hutt, E.L. (Eds.) (2019). Absent from school: Understanding and addressing student absenteeism. Harvard Education Press. “In Absent from School, Gottfried and Hutt offer a comprehensive and timely resource for educators and policy makers seeking to understand the scope, impact, and causes of chronic student absenteeism.”
- Heyne, D.A., & Maynard, B.R. (2016). Interventions for school refusal and truancy: A case of 'old dogs in need of new tricks'? In R. Menzies, M. Kyrios, and N. Kazantzis (Eds.), Innovations and future directions in the behavioural and cognitive therapies (pp, 23-28). Samford Valley: Australian Academic Press.
- Gottfried, M.A., & Hutt, E.L. (Eds.) (2019). Absent from school: Understanding and addressing student absenteeism. Harvard Education Press. “In Absent from School, Gottfried and Hutt offer a comprehensive and timely resource for educators and policy makers seeking to understand the scope, impact, and causes of chronic student absenteeism.”
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Websites
- Resources for states, districts, and schools, provided by Attendance Works.
- School-Community Collaboration is a section within the National Dropout Prevention Center website.
- Square Peg is a Community Interest Company in England working to effect change for all the square pegs in the system, but particularly those that face barriers to attendance.
- A website called ‘Not Fine In School’ prepared by parents and professionals “working in partnership to raise awareness of school attendance difficulties”. The aims is to “promote policies and practices that allow parents and professionals to work together.”
- ‘How to Leverage the Every Student Succeeds Act to Reduce Chronic Absenteeism’ can be downloaded via the ‘Communities in Schools’ website.
- ‘Reducing Chronic Absence in Connecticut's Schools: A Prevention and Intervention Guide for Schools and Districts’ is found via the Connecticut State Department of Education (USA) website.
- ‘Examples of Attendance Strategies and Interventions’ found in the ‘Count Me In – Attend School, Prepare for Life’ website.
- ‘Attendance interventions for chronically absent students’ found in Wisconsin’s (USA) ‘What works for health’ website.
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Information Sheets
- 'Attendance Playbook': " ... each page of this playbook describes an intervention, identifies the problem it solves, summarizes supporting research, and highlights schools or school districts that have used the strategy successfully." Authored by P. Jordan (2019).
